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Marketing Agency Workflow: How to Sync Sales, Ad Ops & Creative
Solutions to a marketing agency's workflowhave traditionally focused on the planning and execution phases of the campaign, the marketingworkflowbetween account managers, creative teamsand ad ops teams. However, this often overlooks that marketing campaignsbegin with sales and order management,...
The Problems with Using Asana for Your Marketing Agency (and Why Marketing Teams Need More Than Generic Work Management Tools)
Many project management software solutions such as Asana and Trello are generic, limited, and not intended for the rigors of marketing campaigns. Our agency customers' common pain points with using Asana to manage their workflow include: Only covering part of the marketing workflow proc...
The Key Features of Advertising Order Management Systems (and How to Integrate an OMS into Your Marketing Operations)
Advertising and marketing teams use a variety of tools to submit and collect new orders. Some companies (especially larger ones) rely on popular CRM platforms for this. Smaller companies, like boutique marketing agencies, often handle order management through more basic solutions like Google For...
PPC Reports for Clients: Customizable Dashboards at Scale
Manually creating PPC reports for clients requires time-consuming and tedious tasks that become roadblocks as you scale your business. When you sit down to create a PPC report, you need to: Gather your PPC marketing data out of each digital marketing platform. This means pulling data ou...
The Paid Search Dashboard That Scales Across Clients
Reporting to clients on paid search performance typically requires a wide set of tools. Digital marketing agencies are often caught pulling data out of Google Analytics and Google Ads (formerly Google AdWords), funneling it into Google Sheets (or Excel) and PowerPoint, and then sending reports o...
The #1 Problem with Most Marketing Agency Project Management Software
Most marketing agencies use several different platforms to plan, launch, measure, and report on their marketing campaigns. But relying on fragmented platforms to manage your marketing operations can lead to bottlenecks, inefficient communication between teams, and crucial delays in client onboa...
How to Scale Google AdWords Reports for Clients (with Examples)
Manually creating and managing AdWords reports out of tools like Excel and PowerPoint is a time-consuming process for marketers. Ultimately, manual reporting processes reduce the value you can demonstrate to clients and adversely affect client retention. Plus, these reports take so much effor...
How to Optimize Your Ad Operations Workflow
Solutions for optimizing ad operations workflow often focus on the post-sales steps of planning, execution, and reporting. For example: Creating marketing deliverables Analyzing and managing campaign performance Creating reports for internal and external stakeholders But before...
The 4 Key Features of Marketing Work Management Platforms
For most marketing teams, the lifecycle of their services from planning and launching campaigns to measuring and reporting on performance is handled through several different online tools, most of which do not communicate with one another seamlessly. But the more fragmented your marketing ope...
How to Increase Conversions in 2021: A Light at the End of the Tunnel
2020 brought a wave of challenges and opportunities to businesses across the country. COVID-19 forced many non-essential businesses to temporarily close their storefronts and offices and shift to a virtual model, leading to a drop in sales for many as they attempted to adjust to a new way of wor...